Happy china's new year

Today is 22nd February, we come back to office and start to work from today.

There are around 20 days for the spring festival holiday in china. Normally, i think it has parts for these 14 days.

1. There are around 2~4 days chinese prepare for their holiday, such as paste Spring Festival couplets：

And people also will prepare all kinds of food to eat on the eve of new year, such as dumplings, hot pot. We usually eat both hot pot and dumplings at the same time. Because dumpling means reunion, and hot pot can keep your food warm and hot in cold weather, you know the eve of new year is at the end of winter.

    2.At the begining of1~6 days, people will visit each other from different families. I think this is very important because it enhance close relationship between people. Elder usually give red envelope to child as a gift. And we will invite people to have dinner with us together, people also ofter have dinner in other's houses. That is why we consum a lot food and wine in spring festival holiday.

    3.After the begining of 1~6 days, people will leave hometown to go to work in droves. 

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and officially ends Spring Festival. As the first night to see a full moon in the new year, it is celebrated as a look forward to a better life.

The festival originated in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24), and the tradition of lighting lanterns began in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220) when the emperor ordered the imperial palace and temples lit up to worship Buddha on that night. Later, the ceremony developed into a grand nationwide folk festival.

Paper, silk and glass are used to make lanterns. Children go out carrying paper lanterns, and adults enjoy lantern fairs, eat yuanxiao (glue pudding) and solve riddles on lanterns, which contain messages of good fortune, family reunions and abundant harvest.

The festival still creates a virtual ocean of lanterns throughout China. With advances in technology, electric and neon lanterns are often seen beside their traditional counterparts.